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Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what
>he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I
>do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with
>backwards compatibility in mind, and the goal is never to break existing
>apps -- indeed, the efforts made to remain compatible with existing apps
>are astounding.

Given how stupid tricks that were developed on Windows NT3.5 (or
earlier) continue to work on Windows 95, Windows 98, W2K, Windows NT4.0,
and Windows XP.  I think I can testify to that effort.

cgf

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